Mundane Tasks

Mundane Tasks was Originally Posted on December 16, 2003 by lavarock

I checked Wal-Mart, K-Mart, COSTCO and Home Depot and ended up buying a $114 or there-abouts shampooer. Today I shampooed about 1/2 the carpet in the house.

The phone in the house was “hot”, which means it had a dialtone and you can use it to order service. I had already been on the Verizon website and knew what service I would be wanting. When I picked up the phone to order, they had no idea what number I was calling from. I had to find the name of the previous tenent and use that. If I could not get them that info, they would have to send a tech out to the house, NEXT MONTH; so I did the leg work and should have telephone service in a day or two.

The phone rate is quite reasonable. I am getting local (this island only) dialing, number and name caller ID, call forwarding and selective ring (which is a second telephone number to ring to the same phone) all for $32 a month. On that phone line I’ll put my phone that uses selective ringing. It will answer the phone differently depending on which number people called.

The number will qualify for DSL and although I think Roadrunner may work better for me, I’ll try DSL from Earthlink. My reasoning is that I already host my websites there and have my primary email at Earthlink (Mindspring). Thus I should be able to just upgrade my account and keep everything I have.

The coffee bags and clips to hold the bags closes and the heat sealer all came today. Now if I just had labels…..